A large number of men and women shown returning to work in the United States during the Great Depression. Film aims to boost morale during Depression. A large number of workers enter an electrotype company factory in Cincinnati, Ohio. Men work on various machines as they manufacture advertising mats and cuts for use in newspapers and magazines. Mats and cuts being packed in wooden crates. Men at a furniture plant in Portland, Oregon. Men work on wooden planks as they make furniture for homes. Workers at an electrical and house heating appliances plant weld parts of appliances. Men construct oil burners at a plant in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In La Salle, Illinois a large number of men and women workers enter a building with a sign "Big Ben Western Clock Company." Men and women manufacture clocks inside the plant.
"Takes" for a film. Man receives phone call in Massachusetts. Caller is from Washington, DC and tells him "the tariff is OK. Receiver of call remarks "get word to the trawlers at once!"Man talks over a phone. Pictures of fish adorn the office. A man writes in a journal at a desk. He turns back and smiles. Behind him are magazines in a rack, including "Fishing Gazette" and "Canadian Fisherman."
People, many of them children, climbing on a giant stack of wooden barrels, 30 layers hight. It forms a 100 feet pyre at famous Gallows Hill in Salem, Massachusetts. View of the the bonfire as it is ignited near midnight on July 3, 1930, in an annual celebration ushering-in the July 4 Independence Day holiday in the United States. Huge flames erupt from the bonfire, lighting up the night.
A college football match between Harvard and Princeton, played in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bill Taylor circling in to bring Harvard to the Princeton 20-yard line. Dave Warren’s 38-yard kick. Jim Rockenbach passes to Dave Avecken. Bill Hilmenac to Scott Hashberger brings the ball to Princeton’s 15. Hilmenac fakes a handoff and trots the round end. Final score is Harvard 9, Princeton 7.
Summer game in Massachusetts, New England. Southboro residents play the polo game with a large ball and water hoses. Players move the ball with the pressure of water and try to make goals.
Highlights from two Boston Red Sox-Minnesota Twins games in 1967 that decided the American League pennant. The scoreboard at Boston's Fenway Park. U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey from Minnesota and and U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts stand in the Red Sox' dugout. The crowd cheers. Carl Yastrzemski hits 44th home run to win the first game for the Red Sox as the crowd goes wild. In game two, Fenway Park scoreboard shows game tied 2-2 in the sixth inning. Red Sox take the lead on infield hit, wild pitch and another infield hit. In ninth inning, the Sox get final out on a popup caught by shortstop Rico Petroceli. Fans celebrate Boston's first baseball title in two decades and storm field, where they mob winning pitcher Jim Lonborg (#16).